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What IRS Scandal?
“Is this still America?” Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) asked rhetorically last Friday, as he and other members of the House Ways and Means Committee questioned IRS officials about the agency’s “targeting” scandal. With all due respect to the Congressman, here’s a rhetorical answer: this is Obama’s America, and it is unlike anything we’ve known before…. Read more »
Study Devastating for ObamaCare Backers
Within the White House, within the Democratic chambers in Congress and among the (overwhelmingly liberal) health policy community there was considerable anguish this week. The reason: a new study finds that (as far as physical health is concerned) there is no difference between being in Medicaid and being uninsured. It’s hard to exaggerate what a… Read more »
Remember the Economy? It’s Still Bad
According to a poll earlier this year, voters have a higher opinion of cockroaches than Congressmen. Obama’s personal popularity remains solid, but his job approval rating is going down. Why are our elected officials unpopular? It might just be because they are not listening. In poll after poll, the American people continue to tell Washington… Read more »
Profits! Hating Them When They’re High, And Panicking When They’re Low
Breaking news: some of America’s largest corporations have begun to report declining profits. For those that are offended by highly profitable corporations, this should be really great news. But nobody is celebrating. In fact, the sagging profits reports are thought to be such a bad thing that some believe they sent the Dow sliding downward… Read more »
Blow Off Pampered Greenies, Build Keystone XL
Recycling is fine. Conservation is fine. But sometimes greenies cross the line. They expect you and me to go jobless and hungry so they can save a porcupine. Obama has been pampering his radical greenie friends for far too long. Even Obama’s State Department has thrice declared Keystone XL to be environmentally safe. Let’s build… Read more »
The World (America) Is Upside-Down, Part 2
The notion that we should seek to preserve and promote the traditions, values and ideals that this country’s founding generation mostly shared is considered not just passé but offensively wrongheaded. Yes, why would we want to perpetuate a once underlying consensus (and the Constitution formulated on it) that gave rise to the greatest nation in… Read more »
Can America “Minimum Wage” Itself To Prosperity?
What happens when the U.S. Secretary of Labor visits a church in Charlotte? If an incident earlier this month is any indication, faulty political promises and destructive economic policies continue to spread. It took place on April 3rd. Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Seth Harris made an appearance at a Baptist Church in North Carolina’s largest… Read more »
Better Never Than Late
The old adage “better late than never” might not apply in the case of Obama’s tardily filed budget. It’s one thing to habitually arrive late for scheduled appearances selfishly to build suspense and annoy those in attendance, but it’s another to present this document two months late and after both the House and Senate have… Read more »
Is Disability the New Welfare?
The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients (878,000 people) didn’t even bother and dropped out of the… Read more »
A Free People, And A Resurgence Of Wisdom
“People call this the ‘new normal.’ Let me assure you there is nothing normal about this at all. It’s the new ‘abnormal,’ and it won’t last, because as free people we won’t stand for it…” With those remarks, business magnate and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes drew thunderous applause from his audience. It was October… Read more »
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